2018年审查。

到目前为止我做的最有价值的事今年佤邦s marrying a wonderful person. My sister also married, and my sister-in-law is getting married in the spring of next year. In such a sea of marriages, it feels a bit trite to write a year review on my writing hobby, but what’s a hobby good for if not enabling trite behavior?

The other essential bit before I jump into the details is: I’m really grateful to folks who read the stuff I write. I get a lot out of my writing being useful, and always appreciate hearing from folks.

Writing

By volume this was my best writing year since 2008, and I think in terms of quality it was my best year thus far. Looking at Google Analytics, folks spent about 8400 hours reading stuff on my site this year (210k pageviews, 2:23 average time on site), which is just below the number of hours in a year (8,760) – that’s kind of a neat metric to think about. Adding in a 50 minute conference talk presented to an audience of 470, and this year folks spent about a year reading or listening to stuff I created.

我敢肯定的是今年的公民币更加努力，但对我来说非常酷。特别是鉴于观众，我一直在为最近的 - 经理，特别是工程经理 - 小于一些。

The most popular pieces on my blog this year were:

1. Introduction to architecting systems for scale(25k pageviews) - continues to be my best evergreen post, written first in 2011, although I cleaned it up a bit this year.
2. Digg的v4发布：一种乐观的必需品(14k) - driven by strong social media and social news. One of my personal favorite stories, and a different kind of writing than I typically do, although I don’t have too many similarly good stories left that I’m able to tell.
3. 关于“软件设计哲学”的说明。(12k) - a great book! Honestly, not a very good blog post, it just somehow got picked up on social news.
4. 遗传算法：酷名和该死的简单(11k) - my second best evergreen post, written in 2009.
5. 迁移: the sole scalable fix to technical debt(9k) - I think the best piece I wrote this year. Has a strong point of view without being needlessly controversial, and I think has actually been useful to some folks. When I posted it, I didn’t think it was very good.
6. 模型，文件和分享(5k) - Shared well on social media, almost entirely thanks to being reshared byJulia Evans我发布后6个月。（有趣的是，这是我后立即写作的作品迁移。）

Of the top ten pages this year: two were written before 2018, seven were written in 2018, and one was a navigation page (specifically “www.klytx.com/"). To avoid overfitting on initial social media virality, it’s interesting to contrast that against the top 25 pages from the last 30 days, which has a different shape: 7 pages from before 2018, 14 from 2018, and 4 navigation pages.

总，写道75 posts this year，这对我至少每月写作的目标是良好的，而且远远超过2017年（16篇帖子），2016年（13篇帖子），2015（1篇），2014（4篇帖子），2013（0帖子），2012年（11个帖子），2011（10篇帖子），2010年（18个职位）。事实上，它只是2009年（51篇帖子），2008年（191个帖子）和2007年（78个帖子），我写了类似数量的东西。

As part of that writing this year, I got the opportunity to write a book on engineering management, which is tentatively coming out in March. I’m careful about getting my expectations up, so I won’t really believe it’s happening until it’s done, but all signs point to this being a real thing.

期待明年，我最大的写作焦点正在收到本书（!!）和此博客，以写入较少和更高的价值。大概的目标是拥有更多零常绿搜索驱动的博客文章，我最近写过2012年。

Speaking

进入2018年，我所做的唯一公开讲话是履行毕业要求教堂在我的高中谈话a presentation at SF Python in 2013。今年我有机会在QCON说话，做三个播客和一次接受这一帖子。

In more detail:

• Gave my first external conference talk, speaking at QCon aboutPaying Technical Debt at Scale - Migrations @ Stripe。After each QCon talk, folks tap their RFID to vote on whether they liked the talk and to get attendance information. This was a bit intimidating for a first time speaker, but was neat to get feedback afterwards and a more precise attendance count (470).
• 是我的第一播客与内部对讲。不确定它整体上有多少次侦听，我可以专门查找的唯一号码是428 listens on Soundcloud, but that wasn’t the primary distribution channel, so hard to guess about reach.
• Spoke on my第二次播客在有趣的情况下, which was a discussion of the迁移: the sole scalable fix for technical debtarticle I wrote in April of this year.
• Spoke on my第三，到目前为止最终，播客对互联网历史播客关于Digg v4。This was a reflection onDigg的v4发布：一种乐观的必需品，这是我在2018年写的最高表演文章。
• Stripe’s Will Larson on Designing a Performance Management System from Scratch是一篇文章，我撰写了一篇关于我写的两篇文章（名称，水平和校准和职业水平，名称动量等). It reached number one on Hackernews briefly.

其中每个人都是我的新学习经历。在明年更新我的方法：我很乐意接受任何出现在播客上的要约，但可能不会寻求许多优惠。更积极地，我希望明年在〜三会议上发言，已经发出了一些提案请求提交。最兴奋的是，在SF，都柏林，西雅图和新加坡发言，这是所有条纹正在积极招聘工程师和工程经理的领域。

Social media & social news

我今年了解到的是，写出推特风暴的推文风暴是相当可重复的，并且这种合理的质量都将获得Linkedin的任何东西。这两种机制都可以推动显着的接合。Twitter最能推动相当于社交新闻的流量，但我认为打击主要交通需要破解社会新闻旋转。

有些细节：

• 推特- 2,200 up to 3,600. Didn’t get to my goal of 5,000, but I’m ok with that (esp with losing ~500 folks in what I think was a spam follower purge by Twitter).
• LinkedIn- 从可能4,000到7,400个连接。这是花费大量时间的副产品cold sourcing, particularly in the first half of the year.
• 社交新闻- two or three posts made it onto Hackernews and did ok there, and the Digg v4 post got some traffic from Reddit.

I spent a reasonable amount of time learning and investing here, particularly in earlier part of the year, and I think my summary is that this aspect of internet publishing is not particularly energizing for me, and it’s something I’m likely to do less of next year. My plan is to not set any goals of this sort, and focus on learning and creating instead – this is, in the end, a hobby.

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完全，我为明年做了什么，我为明年做的事情感到自豪，并希望在明年将一些势头带到一下，在长期的时间里扼杀一点。也非常兴奋地切换2018/to2019年/directory for the next post.